Japan’s Mount Io erupts for the first time in 250 years

A volcano in southern Japan, Mount Io, erupted for the first time since 1768 on Thursday, spewing steam and ash 400 meters (1,300 feet) into the air. Video follows.

Authorities warned locals not to approach the mountain. A warning area has been issued within 3km of the volcano due to large flying volcanic rocks and pyroclastic flows.

“There is a possibility that the mountain will become more active,” said Makoto Saito, an official from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), confirming the eruption, warning that large flying rocks could fall over a two-mile (3 km) radius.

One person has been killed, and authorities have banned access to the peak.

Haven’t they done the “ice melted which changed pressure on the crust which means volcanoes erupt because of global warming” route, too? I think that was done during the last big Iceland eruption– it’s probably even in the archives, here .

“As the glaciers melt, the pressure on the underlying rocks decreases,” Compton said in an e-mail to TIME. “Rocks at very high temperatures may stay in their solid phase if the pressure is high enough. As you reduce the pressure, you effectively lower the melting temperature.” The result is a softer, more molten subsurface, which increases the amount of eruptive material lying around and makes it easier for more deeply buried magma chambers to escape their confinement and blow the whole mess through the surface.

““There is a possibility that the mountain will become more active,” said Makoto Saito, an official from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), confirming the eruption, warning that large flying rocks could fall over a two-mile (3 km) radius.”

Flying rocks are caused by CO2. Nye is going to do an experiment with a cork in a bottle of seltzer to demonstrate it. The bottle will be secretly hooked to a compressed air source to show what happens.

They’ve even got a page in English, and link to the establishing act, also in English.

Alternatively, you could use common sense, think about what kind of disasters Japan tends to face as an island, and realize they function as a natural disaster clearing house rather than either having a ludicrously long name or having fifteen different departments that duplicate efforts but gosh, they only do exactly what it says on the tin.

I am, after all, a layman, seeking enlightenment from people like you, and judging other meteorological establishments on the British model I’m familiar with.

“Alternatively, you could use common sense, think about what kind of disasters Japan tends to face as an island, and realize they function as a natural disaster clearing house rather than either having a ludicrously long name or having fifteen different departments that duplicate efforts”

Why would that be common sense? Every Western nation I can think of has fifteen different departments dealing with different aspects of natural disaster. That’s the norm in my world.

I’m a housewife. It doesn’t take any sort of expert certification to take a moment for research rather than being nasty about the horrific thought that, perhaps, Japan does not conform to your biases– and if taking a moment to check for a simple answer that costs nothing is no longer a part of basic British manners, the world has suffered a great loss.

I admit my failings dear, one of them is not presuming I’m competent to conduct any type of meaningful research in a manner consistent with scientific rigour.

It takes no “scientific rigour” to take a moment to see if the information has been made utterly public. Seriously, a Japanese agency has an English language website, down to the founding documents– and it comes up instantly if you look for their name. If you have the competency to reach this website, you are competent to conduct basic research to that level.

It does, though, take serious gall to first declare a bias, then insist you have none– even beyond that required to decide that after you have been rude you are qualified to lecture others on manners.

Observe. Quotes can be put in italics, so as to indicate they are quotes.
****As I said madam, good day to you.

And yet, you keep talking.
The point of the pointed “good day” is that then you leave in a huff, not that it magically forces whoever you are speaking to into silence.
Appeal to manners really loses something when you attempt to bind others by it, yet will not bind yourself.

All that extra CO2 will have to be accounted for by humans using less fossil fuels.
Actually, I could see the warmists (neopagans) sacrificing others to try to quench the volcano. Personally, I think the warmists should throw themselves and other SJW types in to the volcano to try to cool it off.

Just what we need here in NA, a volcano to help with cloud nucleation while it gets a boost (or not) from higher GCRF during a centennial minimum. If Io does anything close to what Tambora did in 1815, The relative proximity and wind circulation patterns could really concentrate aerosols over NA. Could we see a facsimile of 1816’s summer next year?

More than likely the fatality was a hiker, the hiking and climbing season has begun here in Japan. These volcanoes can erupt suddenly, with no warning. 30 climbers were killled when Mt Ontake erupted in 2014, there are many videos of the event from climbers who were on the scene.

Many of these places are smoking or steaming, some are not. Some trails are too hot to stand on with bare feet.

Volcanic eruptions are always good fodder that forcists use as the mask that hides all the warming. Of course volcanoes are ubiquitous so it’s kind of a shell game on which one to blame. Next year, some scientist will blame the Chicago baseball snow outs on a volcano.

“At Shinmoedake, active volcanic activity continues. In the range of approximately 3 km from the Shinmoedake volcanic crater, please be wary of the big ejaculation that scatters the trajectory accompanying the eruption and the pyroclastic flow in the range of approximately 2 km from the Shinmoedake crater.”